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Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves - The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves - The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England (Paperback)
Series: In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science
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Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves examines the textured
interrelations between medical writing about generation and
childbirth - what we now call reproduction - and emerging notions
of selfhood in early modern England. At a time when medical texts
first appeared in English in large numbers and the first signs of
modern medicine were emerging both in theory and in practice,
medical discourse of the body was richly interwoven with cultural
concerns. Through close readings of a wide range of
English-language medical texts from the mid-sixteenth to the early
eighteenth centuries, from learned anatomies and works of
observational embryology to popular books of physic and commercial
midwifery manuals, Keller looks at the particular assumptions about
bodies and selves that medical language inevitably enfolds. When
wombs are described as "free" but nonetheless "bridled" to the
bone; when sperm, first seen in the seventeenth century by the aid
of the microscope, are imagined as minute "adventurers" seeking a
safe spot to be "nursed": and when for the first time embryos are
described as "freeborn," fully "independent" from the females who
bear them, the rhetorical formulations of generating bodies seem
clearly to implicate ideas about the gendered self. Keller shows
how, in an age marked by social, intellectual, and political
upheaval, early modern English medicine inscribes in the flesh and
functioning of its generating bodies the manifold questions about
gender, politics, and philosophy that together give rise to the
modern Western liberal self - a historically constrained (and,
Keller argues, a historically aberrant) notion of the self as
individuated and autonomous, fully rational and thoroughly male. An
engagingly written and interdisciplinary work that forges a
critical nexus among medical history, cultural studies, and
literary analysis, Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves will
interest scholars in early modern literary studies, feminist and
cultural studies of the body and subjectivity, and the history of
women's healthcare and reproductive rights.
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